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Welcome to the 2019-2020 list of English lecteur / lectrice and maître de langue positions at French universities!

If you have finished at least one year of a Master’s degree, you may be eligible to apply to teach English at the university level in France. Please read through the English lecteur / lectrice information and check out last year’s job listings to get an idea of when most deadlines are and which universities were hiring. I’ll continue to add new job listings to this post as I receive them, so be sure to check back often. If your university has a job listing to advertise, feel free to tweet me or e-mail me at ielanguages@gmail.com.

IMPORTANT REMINDER: Lecteurs/lectrices work up to 300 hours of travaux pratiques (TP) per year, or possibly up to 100 hours of travaux dirigés (TD). TP is generally labs/workshops/testing or other classes that require very little preparation, while TD refers to actual lectures, which obviously require more preparation. For lecteur/lectrice positions, you should not be asked to work more than 100 TD hours per year. Maîtres de langue work 288 hours of TP or 192 hours of TD. Some universities have been hiring lecteurs and forcing them to work 200 TD hours so they only have to pay the lecteur salary instead of the maître de langue salary. In January 2014, Heike Romoth published an article in SNESUP (bottom of page 17 in the PDF) criticizing this illegal practice. The official décret states that “Les lecteurs de langue étrangère assurent un service annuel en présence des étudiants de 300 heures de travaux pratiques. Leur service peut comporter des travaux dirigés sans que leur nombre d’heures annuelles de travaux dirigés puisse être supérieur à 100.” If you are hired as a lecteur/lectrice, please make sure the university is not exploiting you by making you do more work for less pay. This has been a problem mostly at universities in and around Paris. Read this comment from a former lecteur on how they handled this particular problem.

Open lecteur/lectrice/maître de langue positions for the 2019-2020 academic year

Updated July 4:

If anyone’s still looking for a lecteur post at the Faculté des Sciences et Technologies (FST) in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy in Lorraine, send me your cv+cover letter EN FRANCAIS as quickly as possible – our returning lectrice has got a post as a doctoral candidate and can’t do her second year.

Please send to me julie.saubion@univ-lorraine.fr as soon as you can!

There’s also a post for a contractuel for 1 year up for grabs. If you have working papers already you can apply for the contractuel post or the lecteur post. If you don’t then only the lecteur post is open to you.

Positions already filled / deadlines have passed

The University of Lorraine in Nancy is hiring one lecteur/lectrice d’anglais to begin September 1, 2019. Send lettre de motivation and CV in French, copies of diplomas, and a letter of recommendation (in French or English) to nicolas.molle@univ-lorraine.fr by May 10, 2019.

The University of Toulon is hiring one lecteur/lectrice and one maître de langue to begin September 1, 2019 within UFR Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines. Deadline to apply is May 14, 2019.

The University of Angers is looking for a Maître de Langue in English, for its Law department. Start date: September 1st 2019. You need to be either a native speaker of English or have a near-native command of the language, speak decent French, and preferably have a Master’s Degree (or some other form of training) in Law, or at least have a keen interest in judicial issues, to apply for this position. You will be required to teach across the range from L1 to M2 and be in charge of developing all or part of the course material. Past experience of course development is therefore greatly appreciated.

Nantes University is recruiting lecteurs/lectrices for both the Languages department in Nantes (students specialising in Business or general English studies) and for the La Roche sur Yon campus (students specialising in Business, Law or Hospitality). To apply for either or both positions, please send a CV and cover letter in English, plus the contact details of a referee, to Jackie.baker@univ-nantes.fr by March 22nd 2019.

The Université d’Angers was hiring one lecteur/lectrice d’anglais to teach students at both Bachelor and Master levels, mostly in Tourism studies. Deadline to apply was January 31 (but position was filled before this date.)

Other Options to Teach English Abroad

If you are not qualified to teach at the university level, consider the Teaching Assistant Program in France to teach in the French public school system. The contract is shorter and the pay is less, but it is good experience if you plan to move up to teaching at the university level later on. Deadlines are from December to March, depending on your nationality. There are also other opportunities to teach English in Europe or Latin America if you would like to teach in other countries.

If you are an American citizen with a Master’s degree in TESOL/linguistics, you can also apply to the English Language Fellow Program to teach English overseas for 10 months. The locations change every year, but there are many options available and the stipend is $30,000.

Dr. Wagner has a PhD in Linguistics and is dedicated to learning and teaching languages online and abroad. She has studied in Quebec and Australia, taught English in France, and is currently based in the US.

If you would like to teach English at a university in France or the DOM-TOMs for the 2015-2016 school year, job announcements for lecteur / lectrice d’anglais and maître de langue positions are listed below. Both positions require native or near-native fluency in English but the lecteur/lectrice position requires completion of only one year of a Master’s degree (M1; some universities may accept a 4 year Bachelor’s degree since it could be considered Bac+4) while the maître de langue position requires a Master’s degree (M2).

Even if the deadline has passed, you can still send your CV. I sent mine three months after the deadline and still got the job so you really never know. The job listings for 2014-2015 are available here if you’d like to see when most deadlines are and which universities were hiring last year.

I will continue to update this post with any new job listings I find. Thanks Eileen for finding the first one and Dana for helping find others!

The Université d’Evry, south of Paris (35 minutes train ride from the Gare de Lyon), is recruiting a lecteur/lectrice in English for September 2015

– must be of anglophone birth
– teaching experience of English is important, especially at secondary school/university level
– a Master’s (or at least a first year of Master’s) is required– nationality of a European Union country is required, or if anglophone from outside Europe, residence/work papers must already be established
– Salary paid monthly. Contract = 200 hours per year – extra hours possible.

12 to15 hours a week during university term time
– net salary: 1100 euros per month, including medical cover, expandable to family
– a native-speaker
– who has completed a 4-year university course
– who is willing to work in close collaboration with permanent lecturers
– who will give conversational lessons for science students
– Availability: 31 August 2015 to end of June 2016

To apply, please send a copy of the following documents ASAP:
– CV
– Cover Letter in French (addressed to Mme. Follet, Directrice de l’ISTV)
– Passport / ID
– Birth Certificate (with translation)
– Diplomas (with translations)
– “Attestation sur l’honneur” (stating that you have had no previous position as a lecteur / lectrice in France)
Application deadline: 30 March 2015

The Département du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, is recruiting a Maitre de Langue for 2015-16. Candidates must be native or near-native speakers of English, have successfully completed one year of postgraduate studies and have training and/or experience in the phonetics and phonology of English.
Details on how to apply can be found here. Deadline : 21st March, 2015

Candidates for lecteur posts at the ENS de Lyon must be native speakers of English, and have attained a level of education at least equivalent to a French first year Master’s degree – that is, have completed one or more years of graduate study – in a discipline that is relevant to the teaching activities in which they will be engaged. They must speak excellent French, and demonstrate a capacity to think critically about, and teach, issues of language and translation, as well as those related to their own field of study, and the ability to adapt to the French system of concours. Teaching experience is desirable. Students engaged in doctoral work are particularly welcome to apply.

Candidates for the maître de langue étrangère post at the ENS de Lyon must be native speakers of English, and have attained a level of education at least equivalent to a Master’s degree – obtained in France or in another country– in a discipline that is relevant to the teaching activities in which they will be engaged. Teaching experience is desirable.

A maître de langue position is available at Sciences Po Lillebeginning September 1, 2015. Deadline is February 24, 2015. (You can download the profil de poste, dossier de candidature, and conditions de recrutement at the bottom of the linked page.)

If you don’t have the qualifications to teach English at the university level, you can still apply for the Teaching Assistant Program in France if you’d like to work in the public school system. The contract is shorter and the pay is less, but it is good experience to eventually move on to teaching at the university level. Deadlines range from December to March depending on your nationality with positions starting October 1 and ending April 30 of the following year. The program for American citizens, TAPIF, extended this year’s application deadline to January 29 but it is normally January 15. Also check out other Teaching English Programs in Europe.

Dr. Wagner has a PhD in Linguistics and is dedicated to learning and teaching languages online and abroad. She has studied in Quebec and Australia, taught English in France, and is currently based in the US.